**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[broncogr]

I will be getting it today. Review will follow shortly.

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

I will be getting it today. Review will follow shortly.

Got my yesterday , waiting for my e8400.

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

I've been seriously thinking about this board. How are you guys going to cool the NB and SB?

Stock cooling. it looks decent, and I have pretty decent airflow. As well as the back of my mobo exposed and cooled by 2 80mm fans.

[ShoNuff]

Stock cooling. it looks decent, and I have pretty decent airflow. As well as the back of my mobo exposed and cooled by 2 80mm fans.

Thanks for the info. Looking forward to your results. On water my board is good up to 9*450 with 1.6v on the NB and 1.65v on the SB. Don't think I would be comfortable pushing those kinds of volts on air. Hopefully the SEII won't need those volts to push it that fair. Again...much success Bro!

[broncogr]

Ok, I just got the board. Board revision 1.03G, BIOS 0802.

[SlayeRC]

My current rig:
- 780i ASUS Striker II Formula
- 2 x AData Extreme 800+ DDR2
- 2x 8800GTX ASUS
- 1 x ASUS Xonar PCI
- Enermax 720W

I changed the motherboard in the first place from evga 680i to 780i and booted old vista32 installed with the evga and vista recognized all the new devices. My surprize was that ethernet ports was not functioning after resume from sleep mode. I did not know what happend in the first place and i suspected the nforce drivers were not good because they are not certified for 780i.
I started with fresh install of vista32, formated the vista system partition .. , installed the recomended 9.46 drivers from nvidias site and everything worked, until the next resume from sleep mode , after this resume i have no luck reviving my ethernet ports. Vista is sensing if the ethernet port have link or not (if i plug out the cable) but i have no received packets !!!

I have no errors in device manager, event logs are not containing problems regarding the two ethernet devices. I even tried disabling all the unused devices like HD Audio and firewire. I tried all the bioses from ASUS support site including the latest 902 but no change.

Nforce 780i drivers that i used are:

nForce 9.46WHQL Certified
Version: 9.46
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Operating System: Windows Vista 32-bit
Language: U.S. English
File Size: 43.1 MB

[broncogr]

ok, first problems:

-CPU Fan will not adjust and stays at 100% no matter what you put in bios
- Cant Boot with 4GBs of OCZ 1066 SLI Ready memory unless I bump the voltage to 2.1. With my striker extreme booting at default speeds with default voltage was no problem

[Jeremy617]

Anyone else not getting NB/SB temp readings in windows? Or broken core temps on an e8400?

Other than that I'm having no problems with this board, much better than my reference 680i.

edit: and if anyone is interested, I had this board stable at 500fsb on a dual core with 1.28v NB (stock 1.2) and 1.26 CPU VTT

[asp6000]

mine ships tomm. and i'll have it put together with an e8400 by next weekend.

[zac]

Anyone else not getting NB/SB temp readings in windows? Or broken core temps on an e8400?

Other than that I'm having no problems with this board, much better than my reference 680i.

edit: and if anyone is interested, I had this board stable at 500fsb on a dual core with 1.28v NB (stock 1.2) and 1.26 CPU VTT

Hi bud just had this Mobo put it in, mind you I,m not that hot at OC but put it straight to 1333 and put v core volts to 1.3, Bios 901

It posts then goes to blue screen and keep saying hardware malfunction contact vendor.

Lowered the fsb to 1200 and it would load, what am I doing wrong ??????.

Anyway took mobo back out and put other mobo back in, what shall I do any help would be great please .

Help £200 mobo just sat here

[Leeghoofd]

Why didn't you try to run it at stock speeds and then move on... was it undervolting the CPU ? bluescreen in windows you mean ? did you reinstall the OS ?

[Jeremy617]

Heres pictures of every screen of my bios, check see how yours is different, other than that I can't really help you.

BTW loadline calibration disables vdroop if you enable it.

bios pics

[broncogr]

I think not so many people have got this board yet, that is why this thread is slow. On the asus boards, however there semm to be some movement...

[Leeghoofd]

Heres pictures of every screen of my bios, check see how yours is different, other than that I can't really help you.

bios pics

those are nice temps on the NB mate, is it watercooled too ? or just added an extra fan, getting an XFX 780i next week to build for a friend but already pretty worried if I get a 90°C NB idling mobo...

[Sherk]

I received mine on Thursday, and immediately popped it in. I "upgraded" from an ASUS P5E X38, so that I could run SLI 8800 GTS 512s.

I had a Q6600 running perfectly @ 3.6GHz w/1.425V on the X38 board. I can't replicate those OCs with this board. Fastest I've been able to achieve is 3.15 @ 1.5V (loadline calibration enabled). I tried updating my BIOS today to 0902 (was 0601)... and I'm getting the dreaded CPU Init loop now. I tried slower RAM in one slot, etc etc, and I don't know what else to do.

I don't like this board. I'm thinking of RMA'ing it and getting an EVGA 780i instead. It doesn't seem to overclock as well as other boards, and the performance isn't that great. My X38 board w/single GPU @ 3.6GHz got 15,800 3DMarks (06), this board @ 3.15GHz (max stable I was able to achieve) got 16,200. 400 points better? Not the improvement I was expecting to see at all.

[Jeremy617]

I have a 110 CFM fan blowing directly onto the NB/mosfet area, and yes, its loud as hell.

[Jeremy617]

One problem I had with this board, is that if i reset my bios, it will fail to boot, and get stuck on CPU INIT. The only way to get it to then boot is to pull out 1 of my 4 sticks of ram.

With 3 sticks in it will post, I don't even need to change voltages, and I can just turn it off and put the 4th stick back in and it will post again. The bios seems rather buggy.

[Tony]

LOL Striker strikes again

[JoeBar]

LOL

Indeed. And imagine that they have already released 5-6 bios...

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

So far it has been a bit annoying to overclock this board.


It seems to need very high volts on everything to get anywhere on it.

And for some reason, as soon as I go over 1200mhz on the mem, performance drops HUGE.

1200mhz = 1180mb/s read, 46ns latency.
1210mhz = 9500mb/s read, 65ns latency.

[@rne]

I made the experience that the northbridge is very hot even with stock voltages . Do you share the same experience?

[barza]

I have been playing with one of these over the weekend, kit as in my signature. Using the 0902 bios: a few observations

1. My 2 sticks of OCZ 9200 runs 5-5-5-18 at 1200mhz @ 2.34volts fine, but won't do much more than that. Westsideplaya - I'll check on your latency change when I get chance.

2. The board has an odd glitch with the voltage (I don't have a voltmeter to check beyond what software is reporting). With 1.6925 selected in the bios and loadline calibration enabled, it gives 1.60 according to CPUID under win XP. Set the voltage to 1.70, and CPUID then gives 1.712. This means that, at least for me, I cannot get a VID between 1.60 and 1.712.

3. Northbridge temps in bios get to 50-60c with an 80mm fan pointing at it, I'm running 450FSB with 1.48volts for NB set in bios. The NB runs hot, but hasn't got a lot hotter as I have raised the voltage a bit and added a fan.

4. The 0902 bios seems pretty stable, but after a day or so of playing I'm a bit underwhelmed by what I have so far under phase - my QX9650 ES is prime stable at 4.5ghz with 1.60v, losing stability up to 4.75ghz, and given the cost of this CPU I don't have balls to be playing with volts above 1.71 at this stage (once I forget how much it cost me I might...)

QX9650ES
Asus Striker 2 Formula 780i 0902 bios
2 X 1GB OCZ 9200
2 X 8800GTX SLI
Thermaltake toughpower 750w
Toshiba 47wlt66

[Jeremy617]

The only way I've seen to measure voltages correctly on this board is to use the ASUS AI Suite software. Everything else shows 1.35v when using 1.44v.

edit: The voltage monitor in bios is also correct

[barza]

Westsideplaya - I'm getting something similar in memory perfromance around 1200, but not as marked:

As set in bios
1200mhz 5-5-5-18 Everest mem latency: 44.7, mem read: 11786
1227mhz 5-5-5-18 Everest mem latency 45.7, mem read 11660
Boot at 1200 then raise FSB so mem at 1227 gives latency 43.5, mem read 12101

Jeremy 617 - have you checked those voltages with a volt meter? I was under the impression that CPUID was usually pretty accurate (something I could easily be wrong about).

[Jeremy617]

No, but the asus software matches the voltages in the bios very accurately, and I'm 100% positive my cpu isn't stable at 4.4ghz with only 1.34v. :P